Making Work Visible

This is a Pointillism ink-drawing with marker coloring made on 130 g/m2 and 20.3 x 25.4 cm paper with 0.20 mm Pigma micron pen and alcohol-based markers.

In the artwork I have submitted I wanted to depict labor workers role in the peaceful and beautiful moments we have in life. Construction workers are the labor work I have chosen to give extra attention in my drawing. In contrast to the chaos and noise that is often present at a construction site I have chosen to make a peaceful and beautiful scene to symbolize the actual result of these labor workers important jobs. It makes me so sad to think of the struggle that is associated with these jobs and I strongly believe a big part of their struggle is a result of the role they have in society being so underappreciated by our current culture. By putting the labor worker under this scene, I intended to show both the crucial part labor workers have in a working society and also how they are “invisible” because of how they’re unappreciated and taken for granted by society. In an ideal world this image is different; labor work is SEEN by society as the crucial part it has in a working and peaceful world and labor workers are treated like people that deserves the same rights as any other worker.